Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Grubb is an assistant professor and academic advisor to the Justice Studies Club in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in 2015 during which time he worked with the Crime Victims Institute to investigate victimization within Texas. He currently conducts research on the spatiotemporal clustering of crime, victimization of vulnerable populations, perceptions and attitudes of professionals working with victims of domestic violence as well as human trafficking, and arson within urban environments. His research has been published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Crime & Delinquency, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Trends in Organized Crime, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Security Journal, as well as Victims and Offenders. Currently, Dr. Grubb and Dr. Chad Posick are working on Streaming criminology: Theory and justice through the lens of popular TV shows, which utilizes modern television shows as a frame for understanding criminological theory.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Burglary, Child Trafficking and Exploitation, Domestic and Family Violence, Fraud and Identity Theft, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Trafficking in Persons

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, Limited English proficiency victims, Immigrants and refugees

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Quasi-experimental studies